Pro Choice

I am a Pro Lifer! I believe that unborn babies with heart beats have the right to live, even if they are attached by a placenta that sucks nourishment from it's host like a parasite.
I am pro choice, as well. I believe women have their choice before they get pregnant. They can choose whether or not to have sex in the first place. Seeing as the only way you can get pregnant is by having sex CHOOSING to not have sex is your CHOICE. Let's say women really want to have sex without having a baby. That can be done, too. Try using any of the dozens of birth control methods out there. Most of them are available at any store, are easy to use, inexpensive and have a high success rate. Seeing as most of these methods are 99% accurate, that still leaves a chance for life to find a way and to still get pregnant. When you CHOOSE to have sex and use birth control you are CHOOSING to take that 1% chance of getting pregnant and therefore must accept the consequences.
Even after you are pregnant, you still have choices that will allow you to not become a mother that don't include murdering a helpless fetus/baby. There is adoption. I can name 10 people off the top of my head I know or a friend knows that want to have children but can't. They would take your unwanted child in half a heartbeat!
Now, in some cases women don't have the choice of having sex. This is by rape or incest. I totally understand not wanting a nine+ month reminder of the horrors of such acts. There are also cases where having the baby could cause death to the mother. I believe abortion should be an option in those cases.
But, for the most part, women who end up pregnant do have a CHOICE. They CHOOSE two steps before pregnancy could even occur. They CHOOSE to be intimate with their partner and they CHOOSE to have sex with their partner knowing the consequences of their actions could include pregnancy and thus, a baby.
I notice lately that people who were once called pro life are now being called anti choice. I am testifying to you that we aren't anti choice any more than pro choicers are anti life.
You can choose your actions, but you cannot choose the consequences of your actions.

Hola!

ATTN: Republicans are Against Strikes!

A family member at a family reunion decided to convince me that it was bad to be a Republican. He claimed that Republicans are against the working man on everything. I asked him to tell me just one issue that would prove his point. After about 15 minutes of dodging the question and saying stupid things, like "our forefathers put the checkes and balances of the Supreme Court, the House and the President in place...", he finally came up with: "Republicans are against strike."

lmao

MARRY YOUR BEST FRIEND!

I'm getting SO sick of hearing about people divorcing because they can't stand their spouse and they've found someone who is their best friend! Well, why didn't you just marry your best friend, or better yet, MAKE your spouse your best friend! All relationships need a little work! You think you became best friends when you saw each other and it was "best friends at first site". Gawl, people act so retarded! I've heard friends tell me, "Well, we got married because we love each other." LAME! There is way much more to marriage than love! I love my brothers and my dad, do you think I would marry them???

I don't know if there is some kind of magic that happens to some marriages and not to others. I don't know if I just got lucky to have the most wonderful man for me and the greatest father to my kids. All I know is that it can work and you can live happily ever after with some work.

Hey, if people want to get married and divorced, I guess that's fine with me. JUST DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! Screw up your own lives all you want, but keep innocent children out of it, OK? Use a condom or something!

Preschool for All (Prop 82)

This topic was brought up at my child's preschool yesterday. (It's a parent participation preschool, where the parent gets to be there with their child the whole time and interact with them.)
The mom and reacher were talking about how importanat it was that the mother be there to take care of her child, etc... But then to my surprise, they started talking about how important it was that every child be able to go have paid preschool. (Honestly, preschool doesn't cost that much, people.) The teacher thought that prop 82 would have made it so people could put their kids in preschool without feeling the need to put them in kindergarden too early.
That's when I said aren't we avoiding the real issues, Children should be home with their moms, not away from them. The teacher said so, herself. Why are we trying to bandage a problem and not trying to fix the real problem? Look, if we're going to put money into finding ways to make our children better, then why aren't we doing what's really good for them?

Every Child NEEDS a Mother and a Father

I think the real issues facing our children are NOT "They need more school". Our schools here in California are already failing our children, both in ciriculum and as far as some teachers are concerned.
I think the real issues facing our children are "They need more Mom and Dad time." We keep on taking our children away from their parents, first with the start of Kindergarten over 60 years ago and now trying to require preschool (if Rob Reiner had his way). I can just see it... 50 year from now, my grandchildren sending their barely three-year-olds away from home to go to whatever kind of school the new "Rob Reiner" creates!
I am taking my children back! They are my responsibily and I cannot take proper care of them if they are in the hands of the institution all day! I chose to be a Stay at Home Mom so I could be with my kids as much as possible. I am not about to give up that great and God-given responsibility so they can learn what a stranger feels they need to learn.
We don't need more institutions taking our kids away from us. We need more time to be with our kids... Teaching them right from wrong, teaching them how to be strong and healthy individuals, teaching them they have somewhere safe to go to (home) and TWO people to go to (MOM AND DAD). They need to have someone in their corner, always. I am heart-broken every time I see a child being dropped off at day-care when they could be at home learning from Mother, someone who loves them and does things for them, not because she is being paid, but because she loves them.
Our society askes us to push our babies out of the nest before they have their wings! Our children FIRST need the nuroushment only a Mother can give so they can face the world, even if that world is no larger than preschool.

Mr Rogers before the Senate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sd7TcVH670